Individual Transformation

Explore our archive of articles on Individual Transformation.

Global Social Witnessing

Journal Article

You swipe through your favourite news site while sitting in a train, and you enter the typical bombardment of information. Can you feel the contraction of your chest, the narrowing down of your attention, the closing of your heart?

Published in Winter 2019 By Adrian Wagner and Lukas Herrmann

The Unexpected Journey of Caring

Journal Article

Personal transformation is usually an experience we actively seek out—not one that hunts us down. In the twenty-first century, becoming a caregiver is a transformation that comes at us, requiring us to rethink everything we once knew. When a loved one becomes a caregiver, everything changes...

Published in Winter 2019 By Donna Thomson and Zachary White

In the Hands of Alchemy

Journal Article

"I needed to know if there was a God and I risked my life to find that out. I know now that we risk far more when we attempt to create a life devoid of a personal relationship with our God."

Published in Spring 2020 By Jerry Wennstrom

Joy and Value of Connection to Place and Community

Journal Article

I wonder how we got so accustomed, as human beings, to being separated from the earth. How we can live surrounded by concrete, work in buildings with pumped in air, and practice habits of buying food wrapped in plastic from the grocery store, with little thought to how our lifestyles affect the living earth, which provides for us all of life.

Published in Spring 2020 By Malinda Clatterbuck

Wrestling with Wealth and Class

Journal Article

Torn between worlds. Longing to belong. Always struggling to navigate all the things I inherited: the money, the karma, the love, the possibility, the heart, the values, the society, my place in it, all of it.  

Published in Spring 2020 By Simon Mont

Becoming Medicine

Journal Article

Joseph is always telling me that we are all connected. “What comes around, goes around,” he says, explaining how the medicine wheel works. Sometimes listening to him gets my head spinning in circles, but that is how it is when you are learning new ways of thinking and new ways of being.

Published in Summer 2020 By David R. Kopacz, MD and Joseph E. Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)

The Sanctity of Food

Journal Article

The sacred within us instinctively resonates with the sanctity of food. Therefore, the growing, transporting, distribution, and consumption of food are sacred acts that deserve ritual and reverence from the moment the seed is planted in the Earth to the moment we have washed and put away the plate on which our food was served.

Published in Winter 2023 By Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker

The Art of Life | a Documentary

Journal Article

As a rising star in the field of abstract mathematics, Michael discovered that he could see beauty and pattern where others could not. But his path was not to be inside academia, or even inside society. He went on a grand adventure to unify his Buddhism with his ability to see an expanded view of reality. He created beauty in a place where nobody else would, and made his friends amongst dolphins.

Published in Summer | Fall 2022 By Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo

The Way Out | End of the Egoic Era

Journal Article

The image of a healthy world lies deep within our own souls. There is a spiritual willpower where this image can no longer be destroyed by external counter-forces. Today, many people who do their service in helping humans and animals have learned to work with this image.

Published in Summer | Fall 2022 By Dieter Duhm

Crone Wisdom | The Soul of Community

Journal Article

Andrea Mathieson, well known for building community through her women’s circles and webinars, recently invited four remarkable women to share some of the unique crone wisdom they had collected over decades of community involvement. 

Published in Summer | Fall 2022 By A Circle of Women